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Collection Online as of February 2, 2023

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

春花鳥図

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attributed to Kano Motonobu 狩野元信

(Japanese, c. 1476–1559)

Japan, Muromachi period

(1392–1573)

One of a set of sliding door panels mounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper

Painting only: 177.1 x 137.1 cm (69 3/4 x 54 in.); Including mounting: 259.1 x 151.1 cm (102 x 59 1/2 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1970.6.3

Location

not on view

Provenance

?-1970

(Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1970-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Stern, Harold P. Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 12, pp. 38-39

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

(May 29-December 23, 2013).

Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 6-December 3, 1977).

特別展狩野派の絵画 (Painting of the Kano School). Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 9-November 25, 1979).

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